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(VIII) Joseph Lockwood, oldest son of Seth Shove and Matilda (Lockwood) Kellogg, was born April 20, 1802, at New Canaan, Con- necticut, and died August 15, 1877, in New York City. After his removal to New York City he was for several years employed in a dry goods establishment as clerk, and later entered the employ of the New York & Harlem railroad. He married, June 26, 1827, Amelia, daughter of Elihu and Amelia ( Ballard) Mor- ton, who was born March 27, 1808, and died November 24, 1849. Their children were: I Lewis Morton, born September 20, 1834; mar- ried, June, 1871, Maria Hart, of Menasha, Wisconsin, which became his residence, and where he died April 12, 1872 ; he was a soldier in the civil war, and in Grant's campaign was
made first lieutenant ; no children. 2. Elvira Matilda, born August 17, 1837; married, May 7, 1861, Samuel Stuart Ferris; eight children ; she died about 1840. 3. Frances Caroline, born March 4, 1840; married Charles F. Lipman, of San Francisco ; five children. 4. Rebecca Mor- ton. 5. Charles Wesley Wallace, born Janu- ary 29, 1846; married, September 26, 1876, Caroline L. Searing, of Hampstead, Long Island ; one child. 6. Florence Amelia, born August 21, 1849, died July 30, 1880, unmarried.
(IX) Rebecca Morton, third daughter of Joseph Lockwood and Amelia ( Morton) Kel- logg, was born November 2, 1843, in New York City, and married, June 9, 1870, Edwin Henry Holmes. (See Holmes VII).
TAYLOR Nathaniel Taylor, the first mem- ber of the family of whom we have definite information, was in Newark on April 8, 1793, when he "agreed to keep the first Class of the Poor for the sum of Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings." He is possibly the son of the Nathaniel Taylor who died in New Providence, February 4, 1772. Children : 1. Moses, born August, 1767, died December 6, 1853; married Mary Brown, born December 17, 1774, died September 29, 1851 ; one child, Huldah, born 1808, died July 30, 1886. 2. Henry. 3. Ezekiel, married Miss Davidson; one child, Betsy, married a Mr. James.
(II) Henry, son of Nathaniel Taylor, was born in 1777, and died at Montclair, New Jer- sey, April 15, 1861, aged eighty-four years. He and his wife were both buried in the old burial-ground of the Presbyterian Church which a few years ago was taken for improve- ment purposes, at which time the bodies of Henry Taylor and his wife were removed to a plot in the Orange cemetery. Mr. Taylor learned the trade of shoemaking at an early age and until his marriage lived with his brothers in South Orange. After that event he removed to Cheapside, or Livingston, New Jersey, where his first child was born ; return- ing after this to South Orange, he lived there for a few years, and then removed his family to Newark, where he set up as a journeyman shoemaker. In those days a trade was con- sidered an essential to a man's education, and it was the custom for journeymen to be fur- nished stock from the large workshops in New- ark, which they took home where they had the family work-bench in a small shop of their own. Here they made the boots and shoes which were returned to the makers in a finish-
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ed state, and often times the whole family took a part in the work and a share in the profits of the labor. So it was in the family of Henry Taylor, who taught his sons his trade, which they in after years followed for themselves. He was considered an expert workman, dili- gent at all hours of the day, and often until late in the evening, for in those times every moment counted in the wages of the family. About 1852 he removed to Montclair, New Jersey, where he later on made his home on Elm street. Here he continued in his chosen occupation many years, and only ceased when his usefulness was ended by a stroke of paraly- sis which rendered active work impossible. From this time until his death he received kindly and sympathetic assistance from his sons, who lovingly provided for him till his death. Much might be said of this kind-heart- ed old man who loved his family and their children. His sympathetic nature was always predominant. He was always thoughtful for others, and his last days were fruitful of his own good nature returned to him by others. He was not a deeply religious man, but he was faithful to his vows as a member of the Pres- byterian church, to which he was attached both in Newark and Montclair. His wife, his loving and faithful help-mate, was a hard working considerate woman, engrossed with the cares of her household, but taking a help- ing hand whenever occasion required in order that the running expenses might be met. She died at the age of eighty-two years. Henry Taylor was a staunch Democrat when that party was the opposing faction in the political strifes of the day, and he was faithful to the cause. While of rather slim proportions and of medium height, he was for a few years the drum major of the band of a Newark military company, and it is said that he served in the war of 1812. He married Catherine Davidson. Children: I. Calvin, referred to below. 2. Lucinda, married Abraham Clark; had Caro- line, Theodore, Edward, Frances, Josephine and Martha Clark. 3. Henry D., married Car- oline Case ; had Sarah, Louisa and Mary Tay- lor. 4. John D., married Margaret Draw- bridge ; had Charles, Frank and Evelyn Taylor, the last marrying a Mr. Bruno. 5. Eliza, mar- ried Stephen O. Youngs, of Harlem, New York, and had Henrietta, Catherine, Theodore, William and Stephen Youngs. 6. Jane, mar- ried Abraham Youngs, and had Sarah, George and Abraham Youngs. 7. Phebe, married John Christie, and had Emma, Mary, John and William Christie.
(III) Calvin, son of Henry and Catherine (Davidson) Taylor, was born at Cheapside, 110w Livingston, New Jersey, March II, 1801, and died at Montclair, in November, 1893. He attended the district schools of South Orange, where his parents moved while he was a child. As a boy lie also worked on the farm of Elias Gray, and later, when his parents went to New- ark, he learnt from his father the trade of shoemaking, serving under him a number of years as apprentice. He was an apt pupil and be- came an expert and worked for himself. In 1836 he came to West Bloomfield, the present Mont- clair, where he settled with his family and worked for Lampson Doremus, a shoe manu- facturer whose factory was on the site of what is now Church and Fullerton avenues. At a later period he worked for this brother John D. Taylor, taking the stock home where he had his own bench and where his three sons as soon as they were old enough, helped him in making the shoes. From 1836 to 1838 he lived on Church street, and then moved to Glen Ridge, where he continued at his trade until 1844, when he moved to a house on the Orange road and Washington street, in West Bloom- field, where he worked at his trade for Moses C'anfield, at Orange. His family also took part in the making of the shoes, doing the stretching and other work of that sort. He continued to work for Mr. Canfield until the latter gave up his business, after which he him- self retired. In 1874 his wife died, and he went to live with his daughter Louisa, in Caro- line county, Maryland, but after a few years came back to Montclair and took up his resi- dence with his son George W. Taylor, with whom he remained until his death, when he was buried beside his wife in Rosedale Ceme- tery. He was industrious, frugal, and easy going, fond of humor, and well respected. His wife was a most capable woman and was noted for her extreme kindness of heart. She was the ministering angel of her community in all cases of sickness, was never known to speak ill of another nor to allow others to do so, and it is said that she was the sunshine of the fam- ily. Mr. Taylor was a member of the Mont- clair Methodist church, and one of its stewards, and for a long time served as sexton. In politics he was an old-fashioned Jeffersonian Democrat, and when a young man at Newark he was a member of a military company. He married at South Orange, July 3, 1824, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Dr. Hillyer, Harriet Bonnel Hays, born May 5, 1807, died August 20, 1874. Her mother was Sarah
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(Parsel) Hays. Children : I. Susan. 2. George Washington, born March 23, 1827, died May 20, 1904 ; married July 4, 1854, Julia Van Houten, of Montclair; had Llewellyn Haskell, born April 8, 1860, married Belle White. 3. Louisa Butler, born September 6, 1829; married Thomas Kealey, of New York City, who afterwards removed to Caroline county, Maryland. 4. Susan Amanda, born September 30, 1831 ; married, January 1, 1852, John Gorman, of Montclair; children: i. Ida Augusta Gorman, born October 14, 1852, died February 15, 1854; ii. Mary Ella Gorman, born March 25, 1854, married, May 30, 1877, Will- iam Henry Ketchum, of New York City, and has Samuel Ketchum, born November 14, 1879, Harriet Ketchum, born December 21, 1883, died May 3, 1886 ; and Kenneth Ketchum, born September 8, 1889; iii. Charles Gorman, born September 26, 1855, a bank clerk in New York, married, October 24, 1880, Clara A. Madison, of Montclair, and has Lillian Gorman, born May 28, 1883, Edward Everett Gorman, born December 12, 1864, married May 30, 1885, Jessie Hope Elizabeth White, and has Grace Jessie Gorman, born March 21, 1886, married April 15, 1909, Edward Keene Storms; iv. Ralph Gorman, born July 3, 1889; v. John Lyall Gorman, born June 14, 1898; vi. Leslie Moody Gorman, born December 22, 1899. 5. William Henry, born April 12, 1833; married, May 31, 1853, Mary Doremus; children : Ed- ward, married, and has one child; Cornelius Doremus, married, and has one child; George, married and has one child. 6. Alfred Black- well, born August 15, 1835; married Amanda Brown; children : Orion Wallace, married and has four children: Sarah Maria, mar- ried Charles Angell, and has five children ; Silas Brown, married, and has one child, Daisy. 7. Thomas Wesley, referred to below.
(IV) Thomas Wesley, son of Calvin and Harriet Bonnel (Hays) Taylor, was born June 3, 1839, at Montclair, in that section which used to be known as Cranetown. His educa- tional training was received in the common schools of Montclair up to sixteen years of age, and for the next two years he worked on the neighboring farms. He then for ten months became an apprentice to Amos Gore, in order to learn the trade of carpenter, and then for two and a-half years worked with Henry Mat- thews. Subsequent to completing three terms of service he went to New York City, where he took charge for two years of the box fac- tory of Hays Brothers, 521 Washington street. He then came to Orange, where he worked
at his trade for Daniel Gardner, Willard E. Howell, Cook & Berryman, and George Cook. Mr. Taylor was for nineteen years in Mr. Cook's mill, taking charge of the different mill work in the manufacture of doors, sashes, blinds, etc. In 1906, when his son, Charles H. Taylor, entered into the business, Mr. Tay- lor became his son's foreman, which he has been ever since. At one time he was a partner of I. N. Williams in the firm of William & Taylors, contractors. He is a member of the Baptist Church of Orange, as is also his wife, and he has served as Deacon for the past six years. Some years ago he was one of the trustees and a member of the standing com- mittee. In politics he is a Republican. His residence is 171 Alden street, Orange. He married, May 3, 1866, Annie Freeman, of an old and highly respected family of the Oranges, whose ancestor was one of the early settlers
of Newark. She was born at Orange, June 29, 1846, and is daughter of Gershom Williams and Eliza (Crane) Freeman, of Orange. Her grandparents were Silas and Eunice (Will- iams) Freeman, and Ezra and Betsy (Nut- man ) Gildersleeve. Children: Oscar Wilcox and Charles Hays, both referred to below.
(V) Oscar Wilcox, son of Thomas Wesley and Annie (Freeman) Taylor, was born at East Orange, New Jersey, November 11, 1867. After a short schooling he was brought to Orange by his parents at seven years old and placed in the Day street public school, which he attended until sixteen years of age, work- ing during his vacation in the wood-working mill of Cook & Berryman. At sixteen he took a regular position under them, running the saw and the different mill machines and doing work in the engine room. He remained in the em- ploy of Cook & Berryman for five years, and while there was instructed in the trade of car- pentering, going out to work as carpenter for them on different buildings. He subsequently worked for Williams & Parkhurst, R. F. Wes- cott, Oakley & Roberts, Orville E. Freeman, Jesse Lockwood, and Preiss & Company, with the last named of whom he has been connected for the past fifteen years. He is a member and a trustee of the Washington Street Baptist Church, a Republican in politics, and a member of the Carpenters Local Union, No. 349. He married, June 5, 1895, Bertha, daugh- ter of Simeon and Anna ( Frazer) Van Duyne, whose father was a machinist. She was born in Boonton, New Jersey, in 1870, and died September 21, 1898. Child, George Wesley, born November 22, 1897.
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(V) Charles Hays, son of Thomas Wesley and Annie (Freeman) Taylor, was born at East Orange, New Jersey, February 1, 1871. He received his education at the Orange public schools, and graduated from the Orange high school when he was seventeen years of age. He then entered the employ of Elliott John- son, in whose bicycle store he was clerk for a year, after which he accepted a position as bookkeeper for George Cook, in his building and finishing mill. Here he remained for eight years, doing the estimate work and having charge of the office work. He subsequently became a salesman for Spaulding & Company, of Elmira, New York, selling builders' finish, sashes, doors and trimmings, throughout New York state, and after six years of this work he started in the same line for himself in 1906, and in the following year erected his present shop and storage building, where he carries a high-grade stock and has a large local patron- age besides supplying neighboring towns and states. He is a member of the Washington Street Baptist Church, and has served one term as its treasurer. He is a Republican in politics, has been a delegate to the Essex coun- ty convention, and served his city on the board of education. He is a member of Live Oak Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has served that body as noble grand. He is also a member of Orange Council, No. 975, Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Master Carpenter Association of the Oranges. He married at Orange, Au- gust 15, 1893, Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund B. Reeves, a carpenter ; she was born June 22, 1872. Children : Frances Elizabeth, born Sep- tember II, 1894; Russell Earle, August, 1903.
NICHOLS Walter S. Nichols is a repre- sentative of many of the oldest and best families in New Jer- sey. His ancestors were distinguished in the early history of Newark and classed among its most influential and distinguished citizens. The name Nichols is first mentioned in the Newark town records on December 3d, 1669, a little more than three years after the first settlement of the town. The notice is very brief and not much to the point, giving no information as to the subject matter of the titles of which men- tion is made. It was agreed, so says the rec- ord, "the town assembled, that the letter pre- pared should be copyied out and sent to Col. Nicholls in the Town's behalf-and signed by Mr. Treat in the name of the Town." This Colonel Nicholls was undoubtedly the governor who was appointed in 1664, by the Duke of
York, over the lands granted to him by King Charles II., and who, under his commission, undertook to give titles to lands in New Jer- sey although the duke had conveyed the whole of that province to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret prior to Nicholl's commission as governor. Genealogical investigations indi- cate an older brother of this turbulent officer who settled in Connecticut as the ancestor of the Nichols family in Newark; through this ancestor the family are lineal descendants in the female line of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.
The next mention of a Nichols is in 1775, when Robert Nichols is named as one of three persons appointed to treat with Captain Riggs concerning "some disputed lands." In 1815 Isaac Nichols, grandfather of Walter S. Nichols, appears prominently in the business of the town as one of its leaders, and from that time for half a century he was identified with all the interests of Newark, both public and private. He was of uncommon sagacity, wise and prudent, thoughtful and considerate in all his undertakings. He was very frequently called upon to act in many fiduciary capacities, as executor, administrator, trustee and guar- dian.
Walter S. Nichols was born in Newark, No- vember 23, 1841, son of Alexander Mc- Whorter Nichols and Hannah Riggs Ward. His paternal grandfather was Isaac Nich- ols, already mentioned, and his maternal grandfather was Caleb S. Ward, a descendant of one of the original settlers of Newark. He is the great grandson of Captain Robert Nichols, of the Second Regiment of New Jer- sey militia, and of Deacon Joseph Davis, wagonmaster in the Essek county militia, both of whom served with credit in the revolution- ary army. He is also a descendant of many of the first and early settlers of Newark, whose names will be recognized at once by any stud- ent of the history of that town, such as Riggs, Ward, Swaine, Farrand, Johnson, Lawrence, Bruen and Davis. His lineal descent from sev- eral noble families of England, including the Clintons, Montgomeries, and Beauchamps, is undoubted, as is also his descent through Sir William Booth from the Saxon, Norman and Scottish kings of England, the Carlovingian rulers of France, and the early emperors of Germany. Mr. Nichols is too good a repub- lican to lay any stress or claim any more re- spect on account of these genealogies, but as these facts seem to be within the scope of this publication, his biographer feels in duty bound to state them ..
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Mr. Nichols was prepared for college in the Newark Wesleyan Institute. He entered Prince- ton University in 1860 and was graduated in 1863, receiving the degree of A. M. from that institution in 1866. After graduation he enter- ed the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, late associate justice of the supreme court, as a student at law, but has never practiced that profession. Soon after this he became asso- ciated with C. C. Hine, now dead, in the busi- ness of publication of insurance literature in the city of New York. This led to his adop- tion of a new and rather untried profession, that of consulting mathematician and legal ad- viser of various corporate and other business interests on insurance matters, and as editor of several works on the law of insurance, con- tracts, and agents, and of the Insurance Law Journal and the Insurance Monitor. This he has followed assiduously and successfully for the last thirty years, and has acquired in it a reputation known and recognized all over the republic.
He is a member and has been one of the di- rectors for several years of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, and is also a member of the New Jersey Historical Society. He is now and for many years has been president of the board of trus- tees of the old historic First Presbyterian Church of Newark, the oldest church organiza- tion of that denomination in the state. He is a director in the old Newark Fire Insurance Company, a member of the American Mathe- matical Society, and has been one of the coun- sel and mathematical examiners of the Acturial Society of America, of which he is a fellow and a large contributor to its proceedings. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Amer- ican Academy of Political and Social Science. In 1888 he was the American representative of the Acturial Society to the International Congress of Actuaries in London, of which he is also a member.
Mr. Nichols possesses the virtues, but not any of the objectionable characteristics, of his Puritan ancestors. Broad and comprehensive in his views on all subjects submitted to him, tenacious in his opinion, decided and firm in his judgment of men and measures, he is never- theless tolerant of the opinions of others, be- lieving that it is the birthright of freemen to exercise unchallenged private judgment in all important matters relating to human actions and human happiness. He is an important and influential member of society, and yields a
forceful mastery by the sheer force of his firm and decided character.
(VI) Theodore, the
FRELINGHUYSEN youngest child of the Hon. Frederick Theodore (q. v.) and Matilda E. (Griswold) Frelinghuysen, was born in Newark, New Jer- sey, April 17, 1860, and is now living at Tux- edo Park, Orange county, New York. For his early education he was sent to various pri- vate schools, after which he entered Rutgers College, from which he graduated in 1879. He then engaged in mercantile business in New York City, which he has continued ever since, at 80 White street. For the last twenty-five years he has made New York City his winter home, and spent his summers at Tuxedo. He is treasurer of the Spool .Cotton Company, and is a member of many clubs, among which should be mentioned the Knickerbocker Club, the Union Club of New York, the Merchants' Club, and the Tuxedo Club.
August 25, 1885, Theodore Frelinghuysen married Alice Dudley, daughter of James Coats, who died March 4, 1889, leaving sur- viving her two children: I. Frederick Theo- dore, born September 5, 1886, and James Coats, born July 1, 1888, died in March, 1890. June 2, 1898, Theodore Frelinghuysen married (sec- ond) Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Hon. W. G. Thompson, of Detroit, Michigan, and widow of Henry Le Grand Cannon. There has been no issue to this marriage.
Joshua Doughty, the first DOUGHTY member of this family of whom we have definite infor- mation, resided in Somerset county, New Jer- sey, where he died at an advanced age, Decem- ber 27, 1822. The author of the Doty-Doten genealogy claims that he was the son of Moses Doty, of Bernards Town, who was a descend- ant of Samuel Doty of Piscataway, a son of Edward Doty of the "Mayflower," but there are very grave reasons for doubting this, and the evidence which has been brought to light by Mr. Joshua Doughty, Jr., of Somerville, who has had an exhaustive search of the New York, Long Island and New Jersey records made, points very strongly to the conclusion that Joshua Doughty was the son of Benjamin Doughty, of Princeton, whose widow Abigail became the third wife of Judge Thomas Leon- ard. This Benjamin was the son of Elias Doughty, of Flushing, and grandson of Rev. Francis Doughty, who emigrated first to Mass-
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achusetts, then to Long Island, and lastly to Virginia, and whose sister was the wife of William Stone, governor of Maryland, 1648- 54. He married Sarah, daughter of Solomon and Susanna Magdalena ( Pelletreau) Boyle (see Boyle). Children: Solomon, referred to below; Margaret, born August 2, 1777, died in 1838, married Joseph Bullman; Susanna, born in 1781, died unmarried, May 25, 1825. (II) Solomon, son of Joshua and Sarah (Boyle) Doughty, was born in Somerset coun- ty, New Jersey, September 26, 1772, and died at New Providence, New Jersey, December 20, 1827. He married, March 9, 1796, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Agnes (Ludlow) Pierson, who was born in Elizabethtown, April 3: 1775, and died in Somerville, New Jersey, July 6, 1856. Children: I. Agnes, born De- cember 12, 1796, died May 18, 1886; married John Darbee Jackson, M. D. of Rockaway. 2. Joshua, referred to below. 3. Elizabeth Pier- son, born October 25, 1803, died July 28, 1838; married Charles H. Jackson, M. D., of New York City. 4. Sineus Pierson, born October 15, 1808, died October 20, 1832; unmarried. 5. Eugene Solomon, born May 12, 1811, died April 4, 1886; married Eliza (Van Arsdale) Underdunk. 6. Sarah Maria, born July 13, 1814, died July 25, 1838; unmarried.
(III) Joshua, son of Solomon and Mary ( Pierson) Doughty, was born near Milling- ton, Somerset county, New Jersey, February 25, 1799, and died in Somerville, in December, 1881. He married, June 30, 1835, Susan Maria, daughter of Isaac and Mary Wright (Doty) Southard, who was born in 1813, and died in 1893. Her father, who was born in 1783 and died in 1850, was son of Hon. Henry and Sarah (Lewis) Southard, and brother to Sam- uel H. Southard, a prominent lawyer and dis- tinguished American public official. (See Doty). Children of Joshua and Susan Maria (Southard) Doughty: I. Louisa, married, 1864, Walter Cammann, born 1839, died 1869; children: . Sarah Cammann, Walter Cam- mann, Susan Cammann (wife of Hugh K. Gaston), and Albert Cammann. 2. Sarah Elizabeth. 3. Mary Pierson, died 1899; mar- ried, 1869, A. Clarkson Dunham ; child : Laura Clarkson Dunham, wife of Abraham B. Dick- inson. 4. John Rowland, married Miss Bald- win ; children : Louise, Effie and Laura. 5. Joshua, referred to below. 6. Susan, died in 1892; married, 1871, Frederick Van Liew ; children: Florence Van Liew, wife of Ed- ward Speer, both since deceased ; and Edward Van Liew, now of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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